Swivel-buckle.



' No. 6a9,|2o. Patented D00. 17, law.

G. L. PIERCE.

SWIVEL BUCK LE.

(Application filed Dec. 20, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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GEORGE L. PIERCE, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

S WIVEL- -BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,120, dated December 17, 1901. Application filed December 20,1900. ScrialNo.40,559. woman.)

T0 Lt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. PIERCE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swivel-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles, and particularly to that class used for belts and the like; and the object of the invention is to provide a buckle so swiveled that it may be readily reversed.

In the drawings which serve to illustrate the invention several embodiments or con structions are shown.

Figure 1 is a face view of the buckle. Fig. 2 is a section of the same in the plane indicated by line 00 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a view showing the buckle-frame turned half-way over with respect to the securing-plate. Figs.

4 and 5 illustrate two details of construction of the clip. Figs. 6 and 7 represent another embodiment of the invention, the first being a face view and the latter showing the clip and securing-plate in section.

Referring primarily to the first four figures.

of the drawings, A designates the buckleframe, and B the tongue thereof, hung in the usual manner on the hinging-bar a of the frame. The buckle-frame is hinged in a clip O of peculiar form. (Seen detached in Fig.4.) This clip is made from sheet metal by preference,folded so as to form the tubular keeper 0 to receive the bar a of the buckle-frame, two cheeks c, and two semitubular parts, which when brought together form a cylin drical stem 0 for the swiveling axis.

D is the securing-plate to be riveted or otherwise made fast to the article to be used with the buckle, as a belt, for example. This plate maybe of sheet metal,folded and formed with dies, preferably. It has a hole at d to receive the stem 0 Fig. 2, the end of which is spread and riveted down on a washer 02. Preferably the end or face of the plate D to which the clip 0 is swiveled will be curved, as seen in plan, Fig. 1, and the adjacentcheeks of the clip 0 curved to fit snugly thereto.

In lieu of forming the stem 0 of the metal 'of the clip tubular it may be formed by brazing or soldering a solid riveting-stem c in the clip, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

In the construction seen in Figs. 6 and 7 the clip C is constructed somewhat differently from the clip O. The tubular keeper for the bar of the buckle-frame is formed at the free edges of the metal, and a pocket 0 is formed to receive the head of a rivet c, forming the stem about which the buckle swivels.

\Vhere used with a belt, this buckle enables either face of the belt to be turned cutward, the buckle not being turned with the belt.

Practically the clip O and securing-plate D may be made so as to bind elastically in a known way when both lie flat, as in Fig. 1, sothat the buckle will be held in this position by friction between the parts.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A buckle comprising a rigid frame, the hinging-bar of which forms one end of the frame, and the tongue hinged on said bar, in combination with a folded clip embracing said bar and a folded scouring-plate swiveled to said clip, the securing-plate and clip being substantially the same Width, and the clip covering the whole of the buckle-bar, substantially as set forth.

2. A buckle comprising a rigid frame, one bar of which forms the hinging-bar for the tongue, and the tongue hinged on said bar, in combination with a folded clip embracing said hinging-bar and curved at its outer edge, afolded securing-plate having its edge curved to match the edge of the clip, and means for swiveling together said clip and securingplate at their matched edges, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination witha buckle-frame having a hinging-bar at one end, and a tongue hinged on said bar, of a sheet-metal folded clip embracing said bar and provided with a tubular, integral swiveling-stem at the middle of its width, and a folded securing-plate the folded securing-plate, of the clip 0, of my name, this 18th day of December, 1900, in sheet metal, having a tubular keeper 0, t0 the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. receive the hin in -bar 0f the buckle, the

cheeks 0, and ti zvo semitubuiar parts on the GEORGE PIERCE 5 respective edges of the cheeks c to form the \Vitnesses:

tubular swiveling-stem c HENRY CONNETT, In witness whereof I have hereunto signed PETER A. ROSS. 

